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How Parents Should Cope With Teen Drug Addiction

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Drug abuse in teens isn’t a new thing and it is worse than many parents think. It isn’t difficult for teenagers to become interested in experimenting and drugs are always out there just waiting to be tried. Even small towns are seeing a rise in drug use.

The only way to keep your teen safe is to talk to them and be honest with them about drug use and what it can do to them. The teenage years are pretty stressful as children grow into young adults. That stress, anxiety, and depression they feel can lead to drug abuse and addiction.

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Share Your Feelings With Them

Many people don’t think that their kids really listen to them, but you’d be amazed at how much of what you say actually sticks with them. Tell them, honestly, about how you feel about drugs and what they can do to people. [Read more…] about How Parents Should Cope With Teen Drug Addiction

Tips to Teaching Children About Money

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Teaching children about money is an important step in a parents life. How you teach your children about money will stay with them into adulthood and could mean the difference between them be riddled with debt or having a happy future.

There are two basic things that people can do with money, once they have it. They can spend it and they can save it. This lesson is broken into those two categories. Start off by teaching your child how money is made, through work. Then, go on to what they’ll be doing with their hard earned money.

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Teaching About Spending

Spending money isn’t just about shopping. It’s important that children learn that bills and responsibilities come first, before fun and frivolous spending. This is where you will teach you child about having a checking account, writing checks, and about budgeting. A checking account gives them a place where they can put their money in order to use it. [Read more…] about Tips to Teaching Children About Money

Parenting Behaviors Punishable by Law

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Parenting is such a huge responsibility which should be taken seriously. Any wrong move can put you in trouble with your in-laws, make police visit your house or worse, even send you to jail. Keep in mind that some neighbors have their eyes and ears open all the time and any act they see you doing that they feel is not right can prompt them to call police authorities.

In the U.S., there are certain acts punishable by law hence parents need to be aware of these to avoid getting yourselves in trouble. Babysitters should also know these particularly now that many homes are equipped with surveillance cameras which can capture your every move. [Read more…] about Parenting Behaviors Punishable by Law

Top Five Parenting Trends for 2015

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At the beginning of a new year, many people make resolutions or goals that they want to meet or achieve as time progresses. These resolutions may be to stop a bad habit or to start a good habit, such as stopping smoking or starting to volunteer more. For parents, making resolutions can be a little more challenging because caring for children requires much time and energy. These top five parenting trends for 2015 are making the new year’s resolutions list for many moms and dads. [Read more…] about Top Five Parenting Trends for 2015

3 Ways to Improve Children’s Sleep Hygiene

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Just because your kids are too old for a baby monitor in their room doesn’t mean you should stop monitoring their sleep habits. Sending them to bed at a “reasonable hour” does nothing to ensure they’re getting quality sleep (kind of like forcing yourself to go to bed at a certain time doesn’t mean you’re not awake in the dark for hours). Understanding proper sleep hygiene is the first step in helping your child enjoy a healthier life.

Check in on them throughout the night for tell tale signs of sleep issues such as early onset sleep apnea. In severe cases, a CPAP machine may be in order or there may be minor surgeries to help with nasal blockages. Of course, more likely you’ll just need to help them make some adjustments to better their sleep. [Read more…] about 3 Ways to Improve Children’s Sleep Hygiene

Parental Control in These Modern Times

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The modern times have changed the parenting landscape to a large extent especially in the matter of controlling our children for their own protection. During the early times, the danger posed on children is often thought to be lurking outside the home. The computer age has completely changed that notion from the time that contact to the outside world was made possible through the Internet.

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Points of Contention

There are many points of contention between parents and children when it becomes to online activity. The two main issues however are the time and content elements. Children seem to be spending more and more time online, too much actually for their own good. They also tend to be very curious and thus will most probably be landing on websites which they shouldn’t be visiting at all. [Read more…] about Parental Control in These Modern Times

How to Create a Rewards System at Home to Motivate Children

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It is said that there are basically two ways by which a child can be motivated to do what is required of him or her. There is the so-called negative motivation through punishment and there is the positive motivation through the rewards system. In creating a rewards system, parents or the adults responsible for instilling discipline in children will be teaching them to check themselves to earn privileges.

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What to Do When You Catch Your Child Lying

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Nothing disturbs the inner peace more of a parent than to catch one’s own child lying. It creates doubt and fear in the hearts of parents knowing that a child found it necessary to purposely hide the truth. Catching a child lie is not resolved in any way by parents going into panic or punisher mode. There are better ways of doing it which will ensure that children and parents learn from what appears to be a negative experience.

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Children are Generally Truthful

Adults should be very familiar with the candidness and truthfulness of young children at the risk of exposing their own half-truths. Most of the time, it can be very funny when children expose things for what they really are since they only speak of what they see and know. Children generally do not lie unless they think they have to and this is where parents should be able to guide them as much as possible.

Children get their cue primarily from their parents. They tend to imitate adults so it would be wise for parents to be very cautious of how they deal with their own declarations. In some cases, children lie under threat of harm so parents should be very sensitive in detecting anything unusual in their child’s actions. [Read more…] about What to Do When You Catch Your Child Lying